wyszukanych pozycji: 389
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The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940
ISBN: 9780804734349 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This book explores the multiple and, at times, contradictory tensions surrounding this turn to play and examines their impact on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature. Arguing that American writers participated in the ongoing debates over labor and leisure more strenuously than is commonly understood, the author shows how literary narratives both responded to and helped shape the...
At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on...
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137,81 |
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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
ISBN: 9781013270710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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246,74 |
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Sundown on this Town
ISBN: 9781496135445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jessica Gleason's poems are often ribald, but always fresh--in every sense of the word. If Charles Bukowski had been a woman, he might have written like this. Open the preview and read "These Poems Are Potentially Offensive" to discover their deceptively simple power.
Jessica Gleason's poems are often ribald, but always fresh--in every sense of the word. If Charles Bukowski had been a woman, he might have written li...
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Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform
ISBN: 9780520305700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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281,65 |
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The Artifact
ISBN: 9781945669569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,43 |
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Risk: The New Management Imperative in Finance
ISBN: 9781576600740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Finance professionals grapple with risk every day--it's the inescapable partner of all financial market participants. As a result, high-stakes financial professionals are continually trying to streamline and perfect their risk management techniques. Financial risk management quantifies and controls risk (loss potential) and helps drive capital to its optimal use (profit seeking). This book is a much-needed guide for financial firms. It describes the latest risk management tools, financial instruments, and practical implementation strategies. And they're presented in a real-world, nonacademic...
Finance professionals grapple with risk every day--it's the inescapable partner of all financial market participants. As a result, high-stakes financi...
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Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780691137346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. Declamation was an exhilarating art form for the Greeks and bilingual Romans of the Second Sophistic movement, and its best practitioners would travel the empire performing in front of enraptured audiences. The mastery of rhetoric marked the transition to manhood for all aristocratic citizens and remained crucial to a man's social standing. In treating rhetoric as a process of... The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed mas... |
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The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1672-1706: Volume V, a Complete Transcript of the Town Meeting and Selectmen's Records Contain
ISBN: 9780788426391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1886, the Town of Dedham published its first volume of printed records including births, deaths, and marriages (1635-1845). In 1888, they published the second volume, records from several churches, and inscriptions from cemeteries (1638-1845). Volume Three, Book One of the town records and a transcript of the Selectmen's Day Book (1636-1659), was published in 1892. The fourth volume, published in 1894, contains a complete transcript of the Town Meeting and Selectmen's Records contained in Book Three of the General Records of the town (1659-1673). This fifth volume "reproduces the record...
In 1886, the Town of Dedham published its first volume of printed records including births, deaths, and marriages (1635-1845). In 1888, they published...
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Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970
ISBN: 9781682260388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 443 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Between 1819 and 1970, the town of Dardanelle, Arkansas, located on the south side of the Arkansas River in Yell County, Arkansas, experienced sustained prosperity and growth made possible by the nearby farming community known as the Dardanelle Bottoms. A reciprocal relationship between the town and the Bottoms formed the economic backbone on which the area's well-being was balanced. The country people came to town on Saturdays to buy their groceries and supplies, to shop and take in a movie or visit the pool halls or barbershops. Merchants relied heavily on this country trade and had a...
Between 1819 and 1970, the town of Dardanelle, Arkansas, located on the south side of the Arkansas River in Yell County, Arkansas, experienced sustain...
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The Gangrene Constituancy
ISBN: 9780615411576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Gangrene Constituancy alerts us Americans as to a future perilous existance.Voters may envision a choice at the polls and cast their ballot for those persons whom they determine may best represent their interests along with the interests of the United States. Somewhere along the line it does not make a difference. Powerful interest groups, particularly elitist bankers, operating on an international scale, appear to control the fate of America.At no time in our history have our institutions and way of life been on such a sustained attack.
The Gangrene Constituancy alerts us Americans as to a future perilous existance.Voters may envision a choice at the polls and cast their ballot for th...
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The Plants of Michigan
ISBN: 9781025905747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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An Ode To Satire: The Untold Story of O.J. Simpson
ISBN: 9781425994358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Perspectives 3
ISBN: 9781722923778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Perspectives
ISBN: 9781987496567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,63 |
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Growing Into Equity: Professional Learning and Personalization in High-Achieving Schools
ISBN: 9781452287652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A book that will help educational leaders visualize, understand, guide, and sustain professional learning so they can navigate the shift to providing individualized learning for all students.
A book that will help educational leaders visualize, understand, guide, and sustain professional learning so they can navigate the shift to providing ...
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Perspectives 2
ISBN: 9781720781219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French
ISBN: 9780810139510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity.
Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing ...
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Handbook of the law of trusts.
ISBN: 9781240110407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Special Education in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
ISBN: 9780521125857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1989, Special Education in Context is an important and thought-provoking book. An ethnographic study of five years in the daily lives of the severely and profoundly mentally retarded residents of a state school in the United States, it was unique in its attempt to interpret their experience in their own terms and from their own perspective. Professor Gleason's findings led him to argue forcefully for a change in the approach to developmental disability. Rather than being based on the imposition of criteria such as 'normality' and focusing on the clinical...
Originally published in 1989, Special Education in Context is an important and thought-provoking book. An ethnographic study of five years in the dail...
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The Law of Contracts.
ISBN: 9781240025664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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166,48 |